miguel o'hara is such a good antagonist because like. he isn’t cool or suave. he isn’t sexy (on purpose). he isn’t calculating. he constantly gets dunked on by teenagers. he hates every person he PERSONALLY INVITED to work with him. he’s literally just mad as hell and thinks killing a 15 year old will fix him.
i feel i must explain my point about him not being sexy. because yes, the man is built like a brick shithouse and he sounds like oscar isaac. of course he’s hot. and yet he is not sexy because at his core miguel o’hara was meant to run a moderately popular panera bread like the goddamn navy
I love this, though, because my favorite thing about Superman is he isn’t Batman. I love Batman too, but Superman isn’t a dude who decided to live his life in pursuit of a vendetta against society when he was eight and then just did nothing for the next two decades but get super jacked, become the world’s greatest detective, and memorize every strategy used by every winner in every field of competition in history. Superman is a very good-hearted person who knows how to bale hay, use AP Stylebook, and break meteors into manageable bite-sized pieces by hitting them real hard. And I’m not saying Superman isn’t smart. He’s a bright guy, he’s just not like, one of the celebrated geniuses of the DC Universe. The best thing about Superman is he is basically a normal dude who happens to be orders of magnitude stronger than anyone else. Normal dudes have brain farts. Normal dudes are presented with a life-or-death situation they have less than four seconds to resolve and make a decision that is not optimal. Normal dudes aren’t typically asked to rescue a child from a 10,000 ton machine bearing down on him at 85mph, but if they were, they would probably sometimes panic a little and do dumb shit like ruin a train when they could have just whisked the child to safety.
I think sometimes Superman makes the wrong decision, not necessarily to the result of extreme catastrophe, but something like this, where everyone is standing around clapping and cheering and the kid’s parents are weeping in gratitude and they want to pose for a picture for the 6 o’ clock news with Superman and the conductor, and in the crowd someone is like “Why didn’t he fly the kid out of the way?” and rather than rolling with the fact that the emperor is naked his friend just says “Shut up, Drew, it’s Superman.”
And then, because I also love Batman for very different reasons, I imagine that later on the same day Bruce Wayne gets a phone call and Clark Kent is like “Hey, Wayne, I uh, need a favor.”
“Do you now.”
“Yeah, I, uh, kind of owe the Union Pacific Railroad $60,000.”
“Oh, and why’s that?”
“Come on, don’t do this to me. It was all over the news.”
“I’m prepared to write you a no-strings-attached check for the full amount on the condition that you explain your entire thought process from beginning to end.”
Anyway, that’s why I like Superman.
I think this is very accurate. One time a tree fell on me in the forest and while it would have made more sense to simply jump to the side and avoid it my idiot brain went through the fight-or-flight options and apparently chose fight, so I reached out my hand and caught the tree, then dropped it on the ground beside me. Ended up fracturing my wrist and wondering why the fuck my brain thought that was the best option for survival. I don’t think people are good at really weighing the optimal choices in moments of crisis.
Bruce: “New Justice League policy. I am willing to pay for whatever damages you guys do in the name of justice and saving lives, but you have to write up a report detailing how the damage occured, including your thought process. Every once in a while, I will complie them into a presentation that we will go through as a whole to determine how you could have mitigated the collateral damage.”
Clark: “This is going to be a ‘name and shame’ type of thing, isn’t it?”
Bruce, lying through his teeth: “Of course not, don’t be ridiculous. This is to improve ourselves.”
The ones who admit “I don’t know what happened here” get a pass on shaming but they still get the alternative suggestions list
And on nights when he really needs a break, Bruce pulls those presentations out, watches the video, and laughs his tits off.
Forget the edgy “batman contingency: here’s how I’d kill all my friends” that’s all over YouTube Shorts, THIS is the series I want to see!
There also needs to be a button for “this is the 5000th time I’ve read your fic because I’m having a horrible day and this is the only thing in the world that always brings me happiness.”
good news: there is!
Support the folks posting work on comment-ebabled sites!
I love when people leave comments on my old stuff.
Its like passive income but it actually works to make me happy.
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Reblogs aren’t going anywhere. It’s the backbone of Tumblr. We are working on making reblogs searchable, which is a long overdue feature!
Okay then can I get clarification on what, specifically does it mean that staff wants to get rid or change “reblog chains” because as I understand it - what I’m doing with you right now is a reblog chain. Im not thrilled about condescending reblogs if it’s involuntary but how are the reblog chains changing or what does it mean if we’re not keeping them? Because as I said this? Seems like a reblog chain to me. How can we keep reblogging and not reblog chains?
Ok, we’re gonna expand on: “Remove clutter in the conversation by collapsing reblog threads.”
Reblogs chains that run really long are hard to understand, especially if they’re repeated over and over and over again on your dashboard. So we would like to test out if we collapse some part of the thread will it make the experience easier for users to follow the conversation?
A potential implementation of this is how Reddit has “6 more replies” at the bottom of the conversation. We are not doing this because we saw Reddit did it. We are trying this because we have seen a lot of feedback from users who are frustrated by very long reblog chains that they see multiple times back-to-back on their dashboards.
But a key thing to note is the conversation would always be accessible. In this experiment, you can always expand reblogs, and remember, we aren’t removing any reblogs.
So how is that going to look on our dash? Is this gong to be like Live where we can’t avoid it?
Because right now, I can see the whole conversation you and I are having and that’s honestly how tumblr thrives as a culture. We’re all in this conversation together.
Like, for reference? Please think of the whole “I love when I get a Net Zero Amount of Information” reblog post. It goes a long way to correct misinformation. I wouldn’t even be having THIS conversation with you if the reblogs were collapsed because its in an uncollapsed reblog that I saw people talk about the meeting.
If you do a chain collapse? You will lose those kinds of posts that allow people to have conversations, right out in public, to find out what is going.
Also you call it an “experiment”.
That implies that there’s a place for people to weigh in.
I’m a social worker. That means I went to graduate school and paid an OBSCENE amount of money to learn how to track down Who To Talk To About Shit. And thus, it even occurred to me to come and ask about my concerns - because my job taught me you can do that. So now you and I are talking. I’m very much the I Know A Guy person in my meatspace friendgroup because I have literally dedicated my entire life to learning that skill. We don’t necessarily feel like we know where to express what we want/think/etc with tumblr generally that will actually reach staff because of how responses to abuse and requests often goes.
The issue though, is if this change is in fact an experiment? The way we all are observing tumblr staff is currently getting its information appears very much - to it’s main user base - like we are screaming into a void and staff is just…scooping up from..random places. There’s not really transparency. We make ourself heard as best we can regarding our concerns about this open letters to @staff and we fill out support tickets and get often silence only to have features implemented that many if not all of us Do Not Want, or want to be voluntary. This makes us feel like we’re not being heard. It’s not like the @staff tumblr has an ask inbox. And its not like support tickets get us anything more than a robot reply.
Meanwhile the people writing open letters and formulating polls have tens of thousands of reblogs and responses. From where we stand, out in the weeds, that all gives a very Zoidbergian Energy of
from where we stand, even if you are, in fact, truly pulling from what you get - if only because so much of the user base doesn’t use Support Tickets as much as they should. This is a bit of a (again, social worker here) are you guys meeting the userbase where we are? Or are you only pulling from one source? I’m not accusing. I’m genuinely asking since I’ve got you here and we’re having a productive dialogue :D
Who are you talking to, user-base wise? Because no one out in the wilds I’ve ever talked to has talked to a currently working staff member, let alone a C-Level executive before you and I, which… Hi, yes, I just wanna validate and applaud you for this? Thank you so much and way to go! I am so grateful to be doing right now. This is awesome. You’re awesome for doing it and it really makes me INSANELY hopeful for the future.
But terms like experiment do bring up the question: what makes you(tumblr the company) decide to keep a feature/update/etc? How do we know we’ve done enough to say how we feel? We do understand that money is an issue but when it comes to things BESIDES that, is there a way to be EFFECTIVE in our communication with @staff because Support Tickets often feels like it isn’t.
so the original clip is when BTS was on james corden’s show, and even the interview itself is so funny bc like one day before they came on his show, corden made fun of BTS fans and essentially said they’re all ~dumb teenage girls~ and therefore their opinions don’t matter, and obviously the fans did their usual thing on social media and nobody cared because it’s james corden
BTS comes on the show the next day, they immediately bring it up and call him out on it, they obviously all hate his ass (and they never come on his show again), corden’s making excuses for himself and avoiding accountability and being like “poor me i’m the real victim here!!!!!” and one of them literally responds to that by interrupting him and saying “we accept your apology :)”
after that, someone made this tiktok (and i saved it bc it makes me cry laugh every time):
and then someone used that tiktok to make the gif, and as far as i can tell, the first ever use of the gif was on the celibacy sweep tumblr poll:
the fact that “the vibes here are rancid” is a power that the jedi actually have is insane to me
can you imagine being a normal dude and you’re getting help from this jedi, and this jedi dude’s like “head’s up, the next five minutes have the worst vibes imaginable” and you’re like “why?” and the jedi dude’s like “inscrutable cosmic power told me so, doesn’t get more specific than that”
like all these weird little men in weird little robes with glowy swords do is meditate because they have sorcerer-induced anxiety. yoda’s always fucking meditating on his little pillow because he has to figure out if he’s nauseous because the arcane will of all life itself is speaking through his midichlorians to warn him or if he just ate a bad burrito for lunch. the force is constantly dunking on these weird little men and telling them “something bad’s going to happen” and never explaining what’s going to happen. do you sense bad vibes because your washing machine is about to break and flood your apartment, or because the government you serve is about to turn into a dictatorship and mow your ass like grass? that’s for you to figure out
mace windu has Double Anxiety because every now and then he gets a pop-up that tells him when he is making a Significant Visual Novel Protag Choice
